Bill-holder



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l BILL HOLDER, No. 380,685. N l Patented Apr. 10,.l8881..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARVEY E. LEASURE, O WILLIAMSBURG, IOWA.

BILL-HOLDER.

SPECIPICATIONIorming peut of Letters Patent No. 380,685, dated April 10, 1888.

Application filed April 25, 1857. Serial No. 236,125.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARVEY E. LEAsURE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Williamsburg, in the county of Iowa and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Bill- Holding Machine, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bill-holders in which two long brass-wire hinges, one working with a spring, hold bills filed between two boards and give room for a varying number of bills and facilitate putting in and removing them, and provide easy refere-nce to bill-heads by means of ahinged flap.

The objects of my improvements are, first, to provide a strong spring that is easily Inanipulated; second, to secure protection and easy access to bill-heads; third, durability in construction, and, fourth, to keep bills straight 4 in holder. I attain these objects by the mechanl ism illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

in which- Figure lis a top view of entire machine; Fig. 2, a sectional view of machine closed; Fig. 3, a sectional view of machine open for reception of bills and showing sectional view of spring; and Fig. 4 is a sectional View of Inachine closed, with flap drawn back.

rIhe boards A and F are connected together by the two wire hingearms C andD on either side of the holder, and which hold the boards parallel and keep the bills straight. The arm C has one bearing in the center of board A and a bearing in edge oflower board. The hingearm D has wide bearings b b on board A, to

prevent the light hinge-arm from springing out of bearing in lower board by action of spring in opening and closing holder. The elevated hinge-rod c, between the two bear- (No model.)

ings on board A, is connected with the doubleacting spiral spring ci, which bears on a stationary rod below. The Hap B has two hinges, between which there is a lighter double-acting spiral spring, a', attached to a rod on flap and a stationary rod on board A.

By means of the lifting-ring E the holder is opened to position, as in Fig. 3, for the recep- Y tion of bills, the double spiral spring stretching as it opens with an easy movement and contracting as the holder is closed with sufficient force to securely hold the bills between the boards. The spring on the laphasasimilar action and contracts' to hold the flap either open or shut.

I am aware that prior to my invention billholders have been made with stiff springs to securely hold the bills in place, but which rendered the holder difficult to open and close; that a flap with a rubber to secure it in place has been used in billheads,which necessitated holding the lapback while thumbing bills; that the hingearms were provided withnarrow bearings on cover, and that but one long wire hinge has been used to connect the boards together. I therefore do not claim such a combination, as herein set forth, broadly; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a bill-holder, of the double spiral spring a with the central hinge, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a bill-holder, of the double-acting spiral spring a with the hinged iiap B, substantially as described.

' H. E. LEASURE.

Witnesses:

IvoR HARRIS, DAVID T. JONES. 

